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Quotes About Involuntarily

Mother's electric blanket broke, & I have 'mended' it, so she may be practising suttee involuntarily before long.
~ Philip Larkin
I saw at least one analysis of the experiment where the author seemed to find it perfectly plausible that if a person was overcome by a violent madness he'd involuntarily start to sound like someone from Louisiana.
~ Jon Ronson
I do not wish to say that one should love death; but one should love life so magnanimously, so without calculating and selecting, that love of death (the turned-away side of life) is continually and involuntarily included - which actually happens invariably in the great motions of love, which are impetuous and illimitable.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
~ Clarence Darrow
Give me my sword, Geralt.' He looked at her. Ciri stepped back involuntarily. She had never seen him with an expression like that before. 'If you had a sword, you might have to kill with it. Can you do it?' 'I don't know. Give me my sword.' 'Run. And don't look back.' Horses
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.
~ Nancy Mairs
My nose flared involuntarily and my eyes started watering. You ever been near an animal-processing plant, you know what I mean. The smell isn't like water or air; it's a solid. Like you should be able to cut a hole in the stink to get some relief. You can't.
~ Gillian Flynn
She was coming to look on men and women as fellow-survivors: well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated, or put to use their own destruction. Of those who had endured the worst, not all behaved nobly or consistently. but all, involuntarily, became part of some deeper assertion of life.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
~ Clarence Darrow
Moreover, each man's malevolence quite involuntarily exaggerated the other's importance, as if the chief of villains were confronting the king of imbeciles.
~ Marcel Proust
It's a good thing I don't have a full human digestive system because I was so startled something would have popped out of it involuntarily.
~ Martha Wells